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Are you bored or unchallenged by drill-and-kill geometry questions in your textbooks and workbooks? Are you half-prepared for your coming math contests and competitions? Some benefits of Geometrical Quickies & Trickies are: Over 200 nonroutine geometry questions to separate the nerd of mathletes from the herd of drill-and-kill specialists; Trick and tricky questions to meet the mathematical needs and wants of students- and teachers-problem solvers; Twenty enrichment geometry units to promote an appreciation for recreational mathematics; Hints and solutions, and a reference list for more practice on quickies and trickies. Geometrical Quickies & Trickies is suitable for grades 6-9 problem solvers and mathletes, and for teachers and tutors who desire to challenge (or torture) their students mathematically. Contents 1. What is a Circle? 2. Three Famous (or Notorious) Geometric Problems 3. Non-Euclidean Geometry for Goondus 4. How Many Regions? 5. That Holy Little Geometry Book 6. Fun with Areas and Perimeters 7. Always a Parallelogram! 8. The Malfatti's Problem 9. The Beauty of Pi 10. The Zero Option 11. The Golden Ratio by Paper Folding 12. The Ubiquity of Phi 13. Matchstick Mathematics 14. The Rolling Circle Question 15. Two Useful Circle Properties 16. Proving the Obvious 17. Sanguku-Japanese Temple Geometry 18. Applications of Pythagorean Theorem 19. Visualizing Infinity 20. Geometrical Idiosyncrasies Answers/Hints/Solutions Bibliography & References

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Yan Kow Cheong is a math coach, writer, and editor. A math consultant for MathPlus Consultancy, he specializes in both adult and recreational math education. He conducts recreational and competition math courses and workshops for schools and enrichment centers, and educates the public against innumeracy and pseudoscience. Kow Cheong has ghostwritten and edited both local and foreign textbooks and assessment (or supplementary) titles for students, teachers, and parents. Some of his publications are: Additional Maths 360; Word Problems in Focus series; Challenging Word Problems (Common Core Edition) series; Mathematical Quickies & Trickies; Aha! Math; CHRISTmaths A Creative Problem Solving Math Book. His academic interests involve research in math education, in particular, the psychology of learning and teaching mathematics, and creative problem solving. He is a life member of both the Singapore Mathematical Society (SMS) and the Association of Mathematics Educators (AME). He is also a member of The Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS). For information about the author, click https: //sites.google.com/site/mryankowcheongssite/

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